THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Music presents
University Sinfonia
Will Whitehead, Music Director & Conductor and
University Campus Band
Nickolas Doshier, Director
Trevor McLaine, Graduate Associate Conductor with special guest
Jonah Zimmerman, Euphonium
Thursday, April 27, 2023
7:30 p.m. | Opperman Music Hall
Chapter One
University Sinfonia
Alyssa Albert, conductor
Rhythmic Variations on Two Ancient Hymns
Jonathan Couch, conductor
Carold Nunez (1929–2015)
Snapshot for Orchestra
Kathryn Encisco, conductor
Howard Hanson (1896–1981)
James Barry
The Wand of Youth Suite No. 2
Edward Elgar
I. March (1857–1934)
III. Moths and Butterflies
V. The Tame Bear
VI. The Wild Bear
To Ensure An Enjoyable Concert Experience For All…
Please refrain from talking, entering, or exiting during performances. Food and drink are prohibited in all concert halls. Recording or broadcasting of the concert by any means, including the use of digital cameras, cell phones, or other devices is expressly forbidden. Please deactivate all portable electronic devices including watches, cell phones, pagers, hand-held gaming devices or other electronic equipment that may distract the audience or performers.
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INTERMISSION
On Parade
University Campus Band
Amanda Aldridge (1866–1956) ed. Bove
Shenandoah Omar Thomas (b. 1984)
Carnival of Venice Niccolo Paganini (1782–1840) arr. Staigers
Jonah Zimmerman, euphonium
Susato Dance Suite
Tielman Susato
I. La Morisque (1510–1570)
II. Bergerette arr. Dunnigan
III. Pavane: La Battaille
Ocean Ridge Rhapsody
Trevor McLaine, graduate associate conductor
Robert Sheldon (b. 1954)
Highlights from Frozen
Kristen Anderson-Lopez/Robert Lopez/Christophe Beck (b. 1972/b. 1975/b. 1972) arr. O’Loughlin
Diamond Tide Viet Cuong
I. (b. 1990)
II.
ABOUT THE CONDUCTORS
Will Whitehead is an orchestral conductor, string music educator, and violist pursuing the Ph.D. in Music Education at Florida State University. He is currently the Music Director of the FSU Sinfonia, the Director of the Tallahassee Youth Orchestras’ Intermezzo Strings, and District 3 Chairperson on the executive board of the Florida Orchestra Association. He is Music Director-elect of the Studio Orchestra at FSU.
Previously, Mr. Whitehead served as Director of Orchestras at Braden River High School. Under his direction, the Braden River Symphony Orchestra and BRHS Chamber Orchestra regularly achieved superior ratings at District and State Concert Music Performance Assessments (MPAs). Mr. Whitehead’s students have successfully auditioned into Florida All-County, All-State, and youth orchestras, have frequently earned superior ratings at District and State Solo & Ensemble MPAs, and are pursuing degrees in music performance and music education at various universities around the country.
Mr. Whitehead maintains an active presence as an educator and adjudicator. He currently teaches orchestra and guitar at Montford Middle School and will continue to serve as string faculty for the FSU Summer Music Camps this summer. He has assisted and guest conducted the SCF-Bradenton Symphony Orchestra, adjudicated performance events throughout Florida, and presented on practical topics and original research at the national conferences of both the College Orchestra Directors Association and the American String Teachers Association.
Mr. Whitehead holds the B.M. in Viola Performance and B.M.E. in Instrumental Music Education from Florida State University and the M.M. in Music Education from Kent State University. He currently studies orchestral conducting with Dr. Alexander Jiménez, and has further studied conducting as a 2022 Fellow of the Conductor’s Institute of South Carolina.
Nickolas Doshier recently defended his dissertation and will graduate with a Ph.D. in Music Education from Florida State University this Spring. While at FSU, Dr. Doshier served as a graduate assistant where we worked with the Marching Chiefs and guest conducted all of the concert bands. Dr. Doshier has also assisted and served as an instructor of record for a variety of courses in music education at the graduate and undergraduate levels. In addition, this past Fall he served as the head coordinator for the 41st annual FSU Tri-State Band Festival.
Prior to attending FSU, Dr. Doshier completed an M.M. in Wind Conducting from Louisiana State University and a B.M. in Music and Human Learning from the University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, before starting his graduate studies, Dr. Doshier taught for three years in his home town of Austin Texas where his teaching experiences included instructing concert bands, jazz bands, marching bands, class guitar ensembles, and choirs.
Dr. Doshier is an active researcher in the areas of conducting performance and pedagogy, life-long musicianship, and music teacher education. He has several peer-reviewed publications and has presented his research at state, national, and international conferences.
ABOUT THE FEATURED SOLOIST
Jonah Zimmerman is a euphoniumist, trombonist, and music educator who hails from Atlanta, Georgia. Currently residing in Tallahassee, Florida, Zimmerman is pursuing his doctoral degree in music performance at Florida State University where he serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant of Euphonium and Tuba. As a euphoniumist, Zimmerman has seen success on national and international scales being named first prize in the 2020 International Euphonium and Tuba Festival Artist Solo Competition, a two-time finalist in the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival Artist Euphonium Competition, and two-time finalist in the United States Army Band National Collegiate Solo Competition. In Tallahassee, Zimmerman performs with the Florida State University Symphony Orchestra, Tuba Euphonium Octet, and the Capital City Brass Quintet while maintaining a local and virtual private teaching studio.
NOTES ON THE PROGRAM
Aldridge: On Parade
Amanda Ira Aldridge was born in London in 1866 to African American Shakespearian actor, Ira Aldridge, and Swedish opera singer, Amanda Pauline von Brandt. In her youth, Aldridge was an accomplished pianist and singer and studied composition at the Royal College. Her compositional career spanned from approximately 1906 to 1934 and included instrumental music, seven piano suites, and at least twenty-six art and parlor songs. While much of her music was published under the male pseudonym, Montague Ring, her true identity was an open secret amongst her supporters, family, and music circles. On Parade is an English “quick step” march featuring a typical first and second strain, trio, and an unusual secondary trio that modulates the piece to a third tonal area.
Thomas: Shenandoah
Shenandoah is one of the most well-known and beloved Americana folk songs. This river song originally recalled the lives and journeys of fur traders canoeing down the Missouri River. While this folk song has received several settings in the wind band medium, this particular setting is unique. Specifically, this arrangement recalls the beauty of Shenandoah Valley, not bathed in golden sunlight, but blanketed by low-hanging clouds and experiencing intermittent periods of heavy rainfall (created with a combination of percussion textures, generated both on instruments and from the body). There are a few musical moments where the sun attempts to pierce through the clouds, but ultimately the rains win out. This arrangement of Shenandoah is at times mysterious, somewhat ominous, constantly introspective, and deeply soulful.
Paganini: Carnival of Venice
Carnival of Venice is a folk tune popularly associated with the words “My hat, it has three corners.” A series of theme and variations has been written for a number of solo instruments as pieces that contain virtuoso displays of double and triple tonguing, and fast tempos. This setting of the Carnival of Venice—which typically features a solo trumpet player—will instead feature the euphonium.
Susato: Susato Dance Suite
This dance suite features a reduced and rescored version of Selections from “The Danserye”—a modern wind band adaptation of a collection of 9 dances written in 1551. The arrangement utilizes the full resources of the modern wind band, featuring various sections (or consorts of instruments) in alteration with powerful tutti passages. While the wind parts remain faithful to the original material, the dances are energized with a healthy dose of contemporary percussion effects and a significant part for acoustic guitar. This blend of sound generates a new but familiar element, thus making something very modern out of music that is more than 450 years old.
Sheldon: Ocean Ridge Rhapsody
Robert Sheldon (b. 1954) taught instrumental music in the Florida and Illinois public schools and served on the faculty at Florida State University where he taught instrumental music education classes, conducting, and directed the university bands. Following seventeen years as Director of Concert Band Publications for Alfred Music, he now maintains an active composition and conducting schedule, regularly accepting commissions for new works. Ocean Ridge Rhapsody is a spirited offering teeming with vitality and color. The festive opening leads to a romantic theme with broad sweeping lines. The energetic ending includes a blend of rhythmic development and melodic content.
Highlights from Frozen
First released on November 27, 2013, the Academy Award-winning film Frozen is now in its 10 year anniversary. In theaters alone, the film earned over $1.2 billion in worldwide box office revenue and was hailed as the highest grossing film of all time. This concert medley features many songs from the classic film, including Vuelie, Do You Want to Build a Snowman?, For the First Time in Forever, and Let It Go.
Cuong: Diamond Tide
The composer writes:
A 2010 article published in Nature Physics detailed an experiment in which scientists were able to successfully melt a diamond and, for the first time, measure the temperature and pressure necessary to do so. When diamonds are heated to very high temperatures, they don’t melt; they simply turn into graphite, which then melts (and the thought of liquid graphite isn’t nearly as appealing or beautiful as liquid diamond.) Therefore, the addition of extremely high pressure—40 million times the pressure we feel on earth at sea level—is crucial to melt a diamond.
The extreme temperature and pressure used in this experiment are found on Neptune and Uranus, and scientists therefore believe that seas of liquid diamond are possible on these two planets. Oceans of diamond may also account for these planets’ peculiar magnetic and geographic poles, which do not line up like they do here on earth. Lastly, as the scientists were melting the diamonds, they saw floating shards of solid diamond forming in the pools—just like icebergs in our oceans. Imagine: distant planets with oceans of liquid diamond filled with bergs of sparkling solid diamonds drifting in the tide… These theories are obviously all conjecture, but this alluring imagery provided heaps of inspiration for Diamond Tide, which utilizes the ‘melting’ sounds of metallic water percussion and trombone glissandi throughout.
Garnet Violin
Keara Henre*
Emily Morris*
Clarisse Chatfield
Eugenia Kornacki
Hannah Burke
Hanak Dawes
Emma-Grace Delvillar
Kristopher Glazewski
Natalia Sanchez
Mariam Medina
Gold Violin
Casey Gibson*
Antonia Pretelt*
Ashley Simons
Danielle Huene
Alyssa Lassonde
Sarah Fieg
Christopher Bonatis
Emily Hamill
Elena Beggs
University Sinfonia Personnel
Will Whitehead, Music Director & Conductor
Viola
Chiara Prospero*
Sean Hartman*
Julia Neres
Sofia McDonough
Genevieve
Reynolds
Alexa Curts
Lauren Shoemaker
Cello
Miya Luebke*
Caroline Kaiser*
Johnathan Couch
Michael Proeber
Chloe Ilcus
Hailey Levine
Aaron Stacks
Mina Brahmbhatt
Deniel Kulcsar
Kasie Smith
Theodore Smith
Simon Weardon
Claire Mattern
Eileen Browning
Niamh Mulroy
Isabella Rabin
Cody Basquill
Bass
Kathryn Encisco*
Katie Kenkel
Alyssa Albert
Tyler Goehring
Michael Levanti
Flute
Heather Simpson*
Isabelle Rodriguez
Oboe
Maddi Hoth*
Daniel Farias
Clarinet
Jalen Smalls*
Evan Jewsbury
Bassoon
Michele Gibson*
Lyx Teets
Trumpet
Sharavan Duvvuri
Kai Okamoto
Horn
Ashlie Green
Luis Oquendo
Sarah Meza
Isaac Roman
Trombone
Hadyn Lopez*
Christopher Bernhardt
Bass Trombone
Braden Meyer
Tuba
Sebastian Bravo*
Percussion
Daniel Sullivan
Nicholas Lohse
Charles Stacks
John Baker
Orchestra Manager
Heather Simpson
* Principal
University Campus Band Personnel
Nickolas Doshier, Director
Trevor McLaine, graduate associate conductor
Flute
Carina Baianoa
Hailey Bernaua
Lauren Campbella
Tavyan Dorseya
Alexandra Fenga (picc.)
Cameron Glympha
Nicole Himesa
Jillian Ledwona
Janaya Thomasa
Matthew Torresa
Ainsley Watsona
Victoria Carrollb
Isabela Fryb
Sierra Heflinb
Addison Langeb
Alexis McWilliamsb
Elizabeth Milanb (picc.)
Ashley Shortb
Sydney Shteifb
Amelie Thompsonb (picc.)
Anna Vincentb
Marina Whitsellb
Oboe
Faith Bootha
Sarah Dillona
Anderson Langea
Juli Chicerellib
Daniel Fariasb
Dana Libertob
Bassoon
Moses Alti
Sophia Claymore
Jalen Smalls
Sarah Wouters
Clarinet
Anna Boglaev
Fiona Froggett
Lillian Gilfry
Maya Greene
Wyatt Jones (Eb)
Erik Lewis (Eb)
Jordan Parris
Richard Parrish
Eve Rozier
Devyn Rufo
Bass Clarinet
Sean Durham
Siarra Vertuno
Saxophone
Scott Bakera
Jordan Bouwensa
Kyle Johnsa
Mason Morgana
Jillian Morsea
Katie Stroma
Will Binkleyb
Kelsey Fosterb
Richard Gonzalezb
Alexea Morrisb
Keira Schehlb
Alejandro Valdiviab
Amber Losciale (tenor)
Brianna McVay (tenor)
Lia Delgado (baritone)
Lily Nell (baritone)
Trumpet
Ian Amana
Matthew Becka
Jean-Luc Cruza
John Justicea
Elizabeth O’Mearaa
Jennifer Teixeiraa
Jonathan Weissa
Nick Amundsenb
Travis Cainb
Colleen Gruzewskib
Nathan Kaneb
Savanna Perryb
Hayden Thomasb
Garrett Worksb
Horn
Carlos Cordero
Benjamin Erstling
Kai Lamont
William Lehmann
Rebecca Pereira
Senanu Simpson
Anna Stanley
Lora Thaxton
Trombone
Graham Binkley
Alexa Curts
John-Paul Garzon
Grant Gray
Marc Jacobs
Christopher Malave
Euphonium
Willy Gonzalez Campa
Jordan Jackson
Katherine Nepute
Ken Shannon
Jonathan Valyou
Tuba
David Fernandez
Michael Haves
Nate Kennard
Jonah Zimmerman
Tyler Zumbro
Percussion
Emily Allred
Jonathan Arms
Alura Gasper
Benjamin Hense
Aliya Himawan
Nick Langford
Note: For this concert, the flutes, oboes, alto saxophones, and trumpets were split into two groups—A band and B band. The students in A band (denoted as “Studenta”) performed the first half of the concert up through the Susato Dance Suite. The students in B band (denoted as “Studentb”) performed the second half of the concert, starting with Ocean Ridge Rhapsody. All remaining sections performed the full concert program.
Olivia Moores
Carly Moran
Terri Moran
Alexander Simon
William Smith
Zachary Smith
